Year: 2010

Microsoft New Zealand has today announced the top 20 teams set to battle it out at the Imagine Cup 2011 finals festival in April next year at the University of Auckland. The 20 teams were whittled down from 280 submissions from university students across New Zealand. See the full details here http://bit.ly/InfoNewsImagineCup

Pat Yongpradit’s winning Innovative Teacher Award project, which encourages female students to engage in game programming uses XNA and the Zune. It is a shame the Zune never sold in New Zealand but I expect the same approach would work with Windows Phone 7. [View:https://www.youtube.com/v/cwTLg1_uP7k?fs]

We have just published a guide to AD FS 2.0 interoperability with Shibboleth2 and the InCommon Federation.It includes a walkthrough of setup of a basic lab deployment of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 and Shibboleth 2 that performs cross-product, browser-based identity federation. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e4770f44-93a1-4641-8add-32e076f0aae7

For all my Mac loving friends out there (who don’t run windows 7 on their Mac). With Windows Media® for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser. Download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=915d874d-d747-4180-a400-5f06b1b5e559 Don’t forget to check…

This is the demo I usualy do to show the rich mapping and photosynth integration in Bing maps. [View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53_v6Lo8X-g] This screencast was recorded in realtime while connected to the Internet from my home ADSL connection.

Microsoft has a big focus on employment diversity, including women in IT. To achieve this, we need to encourage school girls that technology is cool. Microsoft has started a program called digigirlz in the US which includes an online course that I think is applicable in New Zealand. If you are reading this blog and…

I have had many comments from teachers about how much better the Bing maps look compared to other mapping solutions (most recently at the North Otago Principals’ Association Teaching and Learning Conference on Oamaru). In New Zealand, the “Maps” option doesn’t appear on the search results top menu so you either have to change your…

This is one of the presentations I’m giving at the North Otago Principals’ Association Teaching and Learning Conference. It is still a work in progress but that is one of the great things about Office Web Apps embedded support, as I update the presentation, it will be updated in this blog automatically.

Windows Steady State was a solution for Windows XP that made it easy for an IT Pro to manage a kiosk type shared computer by resetting it back to a known state after a user logged of. Lots of people have asked for this capability in Windows 7 and Microsoft has just released a document…